I got a baby guppy, what should I do?

[Henry_VCG_]

I have a tiny yellow guppie fry I my tank (in sig) and I need to know what to do with it, should I move it, i'm buying a net for it tommorow and some food, but what should I do until then? i'm going to search the forums any help would be appreciated.

 

[suemack]

congrats on your baby - as far as feeding him if you get some of your normal flake and scrunch it up and then scrunch it some more until it is very fine powdery dust he should be able to eat that - you could try floating a container in your tank and put the baby into that for the day until you get a net - did that with one of my gupps but had to turn the light out so it didn't get too hot. I used a plastic freezer dish - wet a toothpick and just put a dot of food in otherwise the water will foul - good luck

 

[aernympha]

i fed mine boiled egg yolf the firt day i had fry they like it cos it brakes up into little particles but after that we got this thing called liquifry for fry lol!!!

 

[Henry_VCG_]

there going great, i've got my 2 fry in a net with the mother and are feeding them liquifry I might give them some egg for protein, is it neccessary to have the mother in there or is that all the fish shes going to have? thanks for all your help,












VCG

 

[suemack]

hi Henry - if you put Mama in the net with the babies she may still eat them - good luck suemack

 

[Henry_VCG_]

Well as it turns out I must have had those babies for a long time because this morning guess what I found mum had given birth to four more, these were really tiny and when I first saw my other ones they were larger. One of the fry died but there where 3 alive. She attacks the little babies but the other ones are to big So I took her out. Not looking forward to trying to catch the little fellers with the net, 100s of hiding places!!! because there about 1 centimetre big anyways thankss for your help and advice









VCG

 

[canis_lupus]

congrats on the babies!

 

[AllusiveLife]

Yes congrats, She is suppose to have more than that! She'll have more. I noticed with guppies she doesn't have them right away at least in my experience but when it comes with mollies they explode...